Jan Evangelista Purkyně and the cerebellum then and now

Title:

Jan Evangelista Purkyně and the cerebellum then and now

Creator:

František Vožeh

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:a8c142c0-4553-4e70-9e61-c77a776bac71
uuid:a8c142c0-4553-4e70-9e61-c77a776bac71
issn:0862-8408

Subject:

Fyziologie člověka a srovnávací fyziologie, mozeček, neurodegenerace, cerebellum, neurodegeneration, animal models, ataxia, purkinje cells, 14, and 612

Type:

article, články, model:article, and TEXT

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print, bez média, and svazek

Description:

The name of Jan Evangelista Purkyně and the cerebellum belong inseparably together. He was the first who saw and described the largest nerve cells in the brain, de facto in the cerebellum. The most distinguished researchers of the nervous system then showed him the highest recognition by naming these neurons as Purkinje cells. Through experiments by J. E. Purkyně and his followers properly functionally was attributed to the cerebellum share in precision of motor skills. Despite ongoing and fruitful research, after a relatively long time, especially in the last two decades, scientists had to constantly replenish and re-evaluate the traditional conception of the cerebellum and formulate a new one. It started in the early 1990s, when it was found that cerebellar cortex contains more neurons than the cerebral cortex. Shortly thereafter it was gradually revealed that such enormous numbers of neural cells are not without an impact on brain functions and that the cerebellum, except its traditional role in the motor skills, also participates in higher nervous activity. These new findings were obtained thanks to the introduction of modern methods of examination into the clinical praxis, and experimental procedures using animal models of cerebellar disorders described below., F. Vožeh., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Physiological research | 2015 Volume:64 | Number:Suppl 5

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